Brewhouse

Purchased in 2004 and shipped from New York, USA, into our rustic brewhouse shed.

The equipment was modified to enable brewing with whole hop cones from our hop field, and has been tweaked over the last 7 years to improve beer quality, consistency and flavour.

For the first 6 years all bottling was done by hand, fully bottle conditioned, we estimate that the first 1.5 million bottles were bottled by hand. We upgraded to a bottling line which allows us to create better bottled beer, with less time, allowing more opportunities for afternoon surfs after a bottling run. Our beer range varies from the easy drinking Golden Ales and Session Pales, to challenging styles to lure the craft beer lover like Imperial Stouts, IPAs and Belgian style strong ales.

We experiment with barrel aged ales in oak barrels and also traditional ales that are conditioned in real English casks and served on the handpump.